Don't Cha Wanna Ride
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Single by Joss Stone | ||||
from the album Mind Body & Soul | ||||
B-side | "The Right Time" | |||
Released | 4 July 2005 (see release history) |
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Recorded | Mojo Studios (New York City, New York) |
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Genre | Soul | |||
Length | 3:31 | |||
Label | Relentless | |||
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Joss Stone singles chronology | ||||
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"Don't Cha Wanna Ride" is a song by English singer and songwriter Joss Stone from her second studio album, Mind Body & Soul (2004). Released in the United Kingdom in July 2005 and in the rest of Europe in August 2005 as the album's fourth and final single, the track was written by Stone, Desmond Child, Betty Wright, Steve Greenberg and Mike Mangini, and is based upon a sample from the 1968 song "Soulful Strut" by Chicago-based soul and jazz instrumental group Young-Holt Unlimited. It was later included on the 2011 compilation album The Best of Joss Stone 2003–2009.
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Critical reception
Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian wrote that on "Don't Cha Wanna Ride", Stone "works up a decent head of hands-in-the-air funk."[1] Blender's Robert Christgau felt that the song "split the difference between guaranteed hook appeal and a decent simulation of emotional truth."[2] Although calling it a "neo soul hip-shaker", Laura Sinagra of Rolling Stone considered the song to be "more Destiny's Child than yesterday's blues."[3] David Browne of Entertainment Weekly stated that Mind, Body & Soul's "one attempt at sauciness, 'Don't Cha Wanna Ride,' in which Stone [...] compares herself to a juiced-up car, should be parked in the lingerie section of a department store."[4]
Chart performance
"Don't Cha Wanna Ride" debuted and peaked at number twenty on the UK Singles Chart the week of 16 July 2005, spending four weeks on the chart and becoming Mind, Body & Soul's second highest-charting single after "You Had Me". Internationally the single underperformed the charts in Germany and Switzerland, but proved to be somewhat successful in the Netherlands, where it reached number twenty-four (as did its predecessor, "Spoiled"), and Italy, where it reached number thirty-eight.
Music video
The summery video for "Don't Cha Wanna Ride", directed by Wayne Isham, was shot in Santa Monica, California, and released in June 2005.[5] It features scenes of Stone driving a flower-patterned white Volkswagen Beetle 1302 Cabriolet (which she recalls in the song's chorus by singing, "a car this fine don't pass your way every day") along the Pacific Coast Highway and performing with her band at the Santa Monica Pier at dusk.
Track listings
- UK CD single
- "Don't Cha Wanna Ride" – 3:31
- "The Right Time" – 3:35
- European CD single
- "Don't Cha Wanna Ride" – 3:31
- "Spoiled" (On Stage at Irving Plaza) – 5:38
- "Fell in Love with a Boy" (On Stage at Irving Plaza) – 4:14
- UK DVD single
- "Don't Cha Wanna Ride" (Video) – 3:31
- "Right to Be Wrong" (Live at the 2005 Brit Awards) (Video) – 4:30
- "Spoiled" (On Stage at Irving Plaza) – 5:38
- UK 7" single
- A. "Don't Cha Wanna Ride" – 3:31
- B. "The Right Time" – 3:35
- UK promo CD single
- "Don't Cha Wanna Ride" (Radio Version) – 3:04
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Charts
Chart (2005) | Peak position |
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Belgian Tip Chart (Flanders)[6] | 10 |
Dutch Top 40[7] | 24 |
European Hot 100 Singles[8] | 67 |
German Singles Chart[7] | 100 |
Italian Singles Chart | 38 |
Swiss Singles Chart[7] | 93 |
UK Singles Chart[7] | 20 |
Release history
Country | Date | Format | Label |
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United Kingdom | 4 July 2005 | CD single[9] | Relentless |
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Germany[12] | 22 August 2005 | CD single | EMI |
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